2010 Book List (by rating) – **BLL** indicates a Booker Long List selection
All books clickable to commentary:
- Room ~ Emma Donoghue ~ ♦♦♦♦♦ **BLL** Short Listed
- Sunset Park ~ Paul Auster ~ ♦♦♦♦♦
- Woman’s World ~ Graham Rawle ~ ♦♦♦♦½
- In A Strange Room ~ Damon Galgut ~ ♦♦♦♦½ **BLL** Short Listed
- The Thousand Autumns of Jacob De Zoet ~ David Mitchell ~ ♦♦♦♦½ **BLL**
- In Free Fall ~ Juli Zeh ~ ♦♦♦♦½
- Lean On Pete ~ Willy Vlautin ~ ♦♦♦♦½
- Solar ~ Ian McEwan ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Galapagos ~ Kurt Vonnegut ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Parrot & Olivier in America ~ Peter Carey ~ ♦♦♦♦**BLL** Short Listed
- Point Omega ~ Don DeLillo ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Peace ~ Richard Bausch ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Slammerkin ~ Emma Donoghue ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Sheepshagger ~ Niall Griffiths ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Out Stealing Horses ~ Per Petterson ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Samuel Johnson is Indignant ~ Lydia Davis ~ ♦♦♦♦
- The Pyramid ~ Ismail Kadare ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (Albania)
- The Immortals ~ Amit Chaudhuri ~ ♦♦♦♦
- The Matter of Desire ~ Edmundo Paz Soldan ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (BoliviaCuba)
- Explosion in a Cathedral ~ Alejo Carpentier ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (Cuba)
- A Handful Of Dust ~ Evelyn Waugh ~ ♦♦♦♦
- The Long Song ~ Andrea Levy ~ ♦♦♦♦**BLL** Short Listed
- Noir ~ Robert Coover ~ ♦♦♦♦
- I Curse The River of Time ~ Per Petterson ~ ♦♦♦♦
- The Lost Books Of The Odyssey ~ Zachary Mason ~ ♦♦♦♦
- A Long, Long Time Ago and Essentially True ~ Brigid Pasulka ~ ♦♦♦♦
- All That Follows ~ Jim Crace ~ ♦♦♦♦
- February ~ Lisa Moore ~ ♦♦♦♦ **BLL**
- Broken Glass Park ~ Alina Bronsky ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter ~ Tom Franklin ~ ♦♦♦♦
- The Curse of the Wendigo ~ Rick Yancey ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Kings of the Earth ~ Jon Clinch ~ ♦♦♦♦
- The Elementary Particles ~ Michel Houellebecq ~ ♦♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (France)
- Skippy Dies ~ Paul Murray ~ ♦♦♦♦ **BLL**
- The Slap ~ Christos Tsiolkas ~ ♦♦♦♦**BLL**
- The Long Day Wanes: A Malayan Trilogy ~ Anthony Burgess ~ ♦♦♦♦
- Day Out of Days ~ Sam Shepard ~ ♦♦♦½
- Ordinary Thunderstorms ~ William Boyd ~ ♦♦♦½
- Dirt Music ~ Tim Winton ~ ♦♦♦½
- The Passage ~ Justin Cronin ~ ♦♦♦½
- The Museum of Innocence ~ Orhan Pamuk ~ ♦♦♦½
- Purge ~ Sofi Oksanen ~ ♦♦♦½ a Reading Around the World selection (Estonia)
- The Finkler Question ~ Howard Jacobsen ~ ♦♦♦½ **BLL** Short Listed
- Ransom ~ David Malouf ~ ♦♦♦½
- The Infinities ~ John Banville ~ ♦♦♦½
- Masters of Atlantis ~ Charles Portis ~ ♦♦♦½
- Mr. Peanut ~ Adam Ross ~ ♦♦♦½
- Seven Gothic Tales ~ Isak Dinesen ~ ♦♦♦½ a Reading Around the World selection (Denmark)
- Even The Dogs ~ Jon McGregor ~ ♦♦♦½
- The Changeling ~ Kenzaburo Oe ~ ♦♦♦
- The Betrayal ~ Helen Dunmore ~ ♦♦♦ **BLL**
- Morningside Heights ~ Cheryl Mendelson ~ ♦♦♦
- C ~ Tom McCarthy ~ ♦♦♦ ~ **BLL** Short Listed
- Just Kids ~ Patti Smith ~ ♦♦♦
- Please: Fiction Inspired by The Smiths ~ Ed. Peter Wild ~ ♦♦♦
- Oblomov ~ Ivan Goncharov ~ ♦♦♦
- Garden, Ashes ~ Danilo Kis ~ ♦♦♦ a Reading Around the World selection (Serbia/Montenegro)
- Redemption ~ George Ovitt ~ ♦♦♦
- Matterhorn ~ Karl Marlantes ~ ♦♦♦
- About A Mountain ~ John D’Agata ~ ♦♦♦
- Boston Noir ~ Dennis Lehane (Ed) ~ ♦♦♦
- The Stars In The Bright Sky ~ Alan Warner ~ ♦♦½**BLL**
- Tranquility ~ Attila Bartis ~ ♦♦½ a Reading Around the World selection (Hungary)
- Bronx Noir ~ E.J. Rozan (Ed.) ~ ♦♦½
- Bordeaux ~ Paul Torday ~ ♦♦
- Psycho Too ~ Will Self (words), Ralph Steadman (pictures) ~ ♦♦
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